When scientists talk about the cryosphere, they mean the places on Earth where water is in its solid form, frozen into ice or snow. Read more ...

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In 1996, NSIDC received ninety-nine canisters of ungainly film rolls. Each stored hundreds of photographs, most of sea ice, but also glaciers, land, snow cover, and coastlines dating as far back as 1962. The photographs, part of the U.S. Navy-initiated Project Birdseye, offered never before seen images of the Arctic at the height of the… Read more »

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Ice shelves fringe the Antarctic Peninsula. In 1995, and then again in 2002, several of these large floating platforms collapsed. Ice shelves put the brakes on the continent’s glacial movement…. Read more »

The famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, once said, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.” Although Holmes is a fictional character, his sentiment resonates with… Read more »